put dinner on a url.
meal plans, shopping lists and the recipes you actually cook, at a link you can open with one hand in the kitchen.
what could i make for cooking and shopping?
01 / what this iscooking runs on three documents and most households keep all three badly: what we are eating this week, what we need to buy, and how we made the thing that worked last time. they live in a notes app, a screenshot, a text message to yourself, and four browser tabs of a recipe site that is ninety percent story and advertising.
a page is a better shape for all three. it opens instantly on a phone with wet hands, it has no cookie banner, it does not reload and lose your place, and it can be shared with whoever else is shopping. you describe how your kitchen actually works — who cooks, what you will not eat, whether you shop once a week or three times — and your assistant writes the page around that rather than around a generic template.
the trade is the same one everywhere here: what you type stays in the browser you typed it in, so a list you build on your phone is not on your partner’s phone unless you both open the same page and enter it there, or you use the export the prompt asks for. and an anonymous page is public for 24 hours — fine for one shop, not enough for a recipe collection you intend to keep.
in this cluster.
02 / 3 recipesdecide once, eat all week.
plan a week of meals from the things you actually cook
the list, in aisle order.
shop from a list sorted in the order of your own supermarket
your recipes, without the life story.
keep the recipes you actually cook on one readable page you control
questions.
03 / questionscan two people use the same list?
they can both open the url, but they will not see each other’s edits — the page saves into each browser separately, so there is no live shared state. the honest patterns are one phone doing the ticking while you shop, or one person keeping the list and exporting it. anything else would need hosted storage, which we do not offer and no recipe here pretends to.
can it import recipes from a website?
not by itself — the page makes no outside requests. what works is pasting the recipe to your assistant while it is building or updating the page, and having it typed in properly: ingredients separated from method, quantities normalised, the story left out. that is usually the part you wanted anyway.
does it do nutrition?
only arithmetic on numbers you enter. if you type the calories, it can add them up. it does not look anything up, it has no food database, and nothing here is nutritional or medical advice — it is a page doing sums on what you told it.
will it work in the kitchen with a bad signal?
once it has loaded, yes. it is a single html file with no runtime requests, so it keeps working while you cook even if the connection drops. you do need signal to open it the first time, and adding it to your phone home screen makes that first open one tap.